December 9, 2014

Cookie Day Family Tradition

I shared this post a couple weeks ago on Sunflower State of Mind, but I loved it so much that I want it to be part of my archives, so I'm sharing it with you today!

My favorite part of the holidays are the memories, the making of news ones to be treasured, and recreating old family traditions. When I think about holidays when I was growing up I have warm memories of our cozy home, my loving parents, and all the things we enjoyed doing together...helping my mom in the kitchen to prepare for a family gathering, the way she would prepare our home for visitors, helping my dad hang the lights on the house and volunteering with him at the Lion's Club tree lot.

Since meeting Keith over ten years ago I've come to love and enjoy some if his family's traditions as well, including a Day After Thanksgiving visit to the tree farm to cut down trees and a pre-Christmas cookie baking day where we all gather at Keith's mom's house to bake dozens and dozens of cookies alllll day long. It's quite exhausting but even more fun!

I'm sure if asked, most everyone in my husband's family would say that the Spritz Cookies their grandma would make jars full of are everyone's very favorite. Although I never had the pleasure of meeting her, they've become a favorite cookie of mine too. They're simple to make, cute and delicious!

So, if you're looking for some tasty cookies to bake this Christmas please consider these!

This is the cookie press I use every year. Keith's mom gave it to me the first Christmas he and I were dating. I've heard of other people making savory crackers with the press as well, although I've never tried it myself.

I used the Wilton recipe for this batch and added green food coloring to some of it to make the Christmas tree cookies. Makes 7-8 dozen cookies.

3 comments:

Spritz Cookies are our family tradition too. I just blogged about that on Friday :) I've inherited the spritz making cookie tradition in my family. One year I think I made 1500 of those little suckers! Talk about time consuming! It took me two full weekends to do it! The cookie press I use is at least 25 years old, electric and quite frankly I'm surprised it still works! I'll have to take a picture of it and post it on the blog. Actually I think I'm going to do that this weekend...